The synagogue, or, the shadow of the temple Sacred poems, and private ejaculations. In imitation of Mr George Herbert [by Christopher Harvey] |
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The Nativitie. |
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The Nativitie.
Vnfold thy face, unmaske thy ray,Shine forth, bright Sunne, double the day:
Let no malignant misty fume,
Nor foggy vapour once presume
To interpose thy perfect sight
This day, which makes us love thy light
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That blessed object once behold,
Which is both the circumference
And center of all excellence:
Or rather neither, but a treasure
Vnconfined without measure:
Whose center and circumference
Including all preheminence,
Excluding nothing but defect,
And infinite in each respect;
Is equally both here and there,
And now and then, and every where;
And alwaies one himselfe the same,
A beeing farre above a name.
Draw neer then, and freely poure
Forth all thy light into that houre
Which was crowned with his birth,
And made heaven envy earth.
Let not his birth-day clouded be,
By whom thou shinest, and we see.
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